Chandrakant Baliram Sonawane is a member of the 15th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
He represents the Chopda Assembly Constituency.
[2] Chandrakant Sonawane was born in a Agriculturist Koli family of Jalgaon district of Maharashtra in 1961.
[3] He was convicted by Dhule District Court for his involvement in Jalgaon housing scam (Marathi: घरकुल घोटाळा) of 1996.
Then MLA Suresh Jain was mastermind of that scam and he got seven years imprisonment.